Yearly Archives: 2011

22^nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies were held on August 22-27, 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria. More than thousand scholars from different countries and institutions attended the Congress. Scholars form the G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation were invited to participate in the Congress:

Dr. Prof. Leila Khuskivadze, La mosaïque de Guélati: organization du travail, technique, restauration);

Dr. Mariam Didebulidze, Impact of the Anti-Heretical Disputes on the Wall Painting Program of the St. Nicholas Church at Kintsvisi.

Georgian scholars took an active part in the Congress, participating in debates; visiting all the exhibitions arranged in the frames of the Congress and also visiting cultural heritage sites: Plovdiv, Bachkovo monastery, Bojana monastery etc.

They disseminated the books published by the G. Chubinashvili Centre as well as the leaflets with the annotations on these books among the Congress participants. They renewed old and established new relations with foreign scholars.

On the basis of the legalized memorandum of mutual understanding between the ministries of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and Environmental Protection of Norway the National Agency of Cultural Heritage Protection of Georgia and the Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Norway – Riksantekvaren, on June 16, 2011 organized an international seminar on the theme: “Sustainable Development of Old Tbilisi: Challenges and Opportunities”.

The aim of the seminar was to discuss the issues of development of historic regions of old Tbilisi taking into consideration Norwegian experience in the sphere of cultural heritage.

Director of the Chubinashvili Centre Mariam Didebulidze took part in the work of the seminar making a speech “New Life of Old Tbilisi,” where she considered the activity of Tbilisi City Administration in the sphere of old Tbilisi urban heritage protection.